Yesterday(Nov 18) was the two year anniversary of the day Chris proposed. This Picture was taken at the Joseph Smith Memorial building while we were waiting for our reservation to be ready at "The Roof" mm mmmm. I had no idea that was the night Chris was going to ask me to marry him! Story time? Ok...i'll give you the short version..well at least try :)So brief background info... the weekend before Chris popped the question, we got into our FIRST fight. (ever since we started dating). He felt bad that we got into an argument right before he wanted to ask me to marry him. So after we both got over it, he told me he wanted to take me out on a date to make up for the fight we just had. He said we were going to go to the Body Works Exhibit and then out to The Roof for a nice dinner. I was way excited and of course didn't have the slightest clue what was up his sleeve.."literally" haha. So we walked around the exhibit (which was amazing!..highly recommend it) and then headed over to the restaurant. Our reservations weren't until 7:30 and it was only 6:30...we had an hour to kill and I was starved!! When we parked the car and started getting out, I noticed Chris was going to bring in his big coat...I told him "Babe you probably won't need your coat inside." He said, "your probably right" and started taking it off, trying to keep his COOL and not act SUSPICIOUS since he had to pull the ring out of the coat pocket!! Thats the reason he wanted to keep the coat on. haha He thought for sure I knew something was up when we started heading inside, especially since his pant pocket was now bulging from the ring box! ( I seriously had no clue, I was just making a suggestion to leave the coat in the car..lol)
Since we were quite early, Chris suggested just sitting in the lobby at the JSM building and listening to the piano player while we wait to go up. I kept telling him, "Lets just go up now, it's a Tuesday night and i'm sure it's not going to be busy!" Chris did not want to go up yet since they were going to have a specific table ready with a long stemed rose, waitnig for us at exactly 7:30...of course I didn't know this..so I kept pushing to go up... Hey I was starving ok! lol While we waited Chris wanted to go walk around the temple, I told him ok, even though I was getting irritated as to why we couldn't just go up then. We walked around for a bit, might I add it was freezing outside and I was the one who made us leave our coats in the car...remember? haha While we were walking around Chris said, "Hey I have a funny idea! How about you give me your fake ring that you wear ( I wore a fake cubic zerconium on my ring finger) and when we are up at the restaurant, I will pretend to propose to you! It will be funny!" His whole plan was to take my fake ring I wore and when he was going to do the "fake" proposal have inside the box the "real ring"....I looked at him and said, "Are you kidding..umm no way! That would be embarrassing and it wouldn't even be real!"... Hey But seriously..what girl would want her boyfriend to do a "FAKE" proposal in front of EVERYONE? haha So after we were almost frozen from walking around in the bitter cold...coatless, it was close to 7:30 and time to head up to go eat :) finally!
We got up there, and the hostess took us to our table. It had a beautiful red rose waiting, and was directly looking over the salt lake temple. It was gorgeous! There was an older couple directly across the isle from us and they were enjoying their 50th wedding anniversary. We made small conversation with them for a minute, they were so cute:) We both enjoyed our yummy FEAST and then moved onto the never-ending row of desserts!! As i'm sitting there looking at all the desserts we grabbed and taking bites of each one, I noticed Chris is not eating much. I said, " You better help me eat some of this, I can't do it alone" haha. He said, "I'm so full!"...and then contiuned on with saying how in love he was with me, and how he wanted to spend the rest of eternity with me. I kept eating the dessert:)... while letting him know that I loved him too and wanted that for us as well... not knowing what all this LOVEY TALK was leading up to..haha All of a sudden he reaches into his pocket, kneels down and pulls out the most gorgeous ring I have EVER seen! I couldn't believe that was really happening! SHOCKED is probably the best word to describe that moment. Pretty much the whole restaurant was standing up, just watching me cry like a little baby...haha I stood up and just sat on his lap and hugged him..it was such a memorable moment.
We were lucky enough to have the older couple across from us snap a picture of the moment :) They later mailed us the pictures they took and also came to our wedding reception...we felt they deserved an invite :) I'll never forget that day and I'm so thankful for Christopher and everything he does. He's the best husband in the world and he treats me like a princess! I can't wait to spend Eternity with him. I love you babe.
The ring is still sparkling :)
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